on * THE OLD POLE STAR. Before the clepsydra had bound the days Man tethered Change to his fixed star, and said: %The elder races, that long since are dead, Marched by that light; it swerves not from its base, Though all the worlds about it wax and fade.” When Egypt saw it, fast in reeling spheres, Her Pyramids shaft-centred on its ray She reared and said: “Long as this star holds sway In unrivaled ether, shall the years Revere my monuments—” and went her way. The Pyramids abide; but through the shaft That held the polar pivot, eye to eye, Look now—blank nothingness! As though Change laughed At man’s presumption and his pun The star has slipped its leash an the sky. craft, roams Yet could the immemorial piles be swung 'A skyey hair's breadth from their rooted ase, Back to the central anchorage of space, ‘Ah, then again, as when the race was young, Should they behold the beacon of the race! Of old men said: “The Truth is there; we rear Our faith full-centred on it. It was known Thus of the elders who foreran us here, Mapped out” its circuit in the shifting sphere, : "And found it, mid mutation, fixed alone.” Change laughs again, again the sky is cold, ‘And down that fissure now no star-beam glides, i Yet thev whose sweep of vision grows not Jia Still at the central point of space behold Another pole-star; for the Truth abides. —Edith Wharton, in Scribner's Magazine. t i THE WOMAN ENTERS. By KATHARINE LYNCH. In the chaparral on the edge of the bluff Dick Matson lay flat on his stomach, his chin propped on one hand, while the other rested lightly on the shining barrel of a rifle. Be- low, on the further bank of the river, Escolante, the cattle-thief, strutted back and forth before the door of his cabin, his gun in his hands, his strident voice proclaiming to the air his disdain for all gringos in general, and for the white-livered chingado Matson in particular. Matson. unseen, and his presence only dimly apprehended by the strange animal instinct of the half- breed, could hear with sufficient plainness the gusts of wrath and ob- jurgation which floated up from be- jow; and when his own name was mingled with especially acrid vitu- perations, the rage to which he dared give no more audible vent expressed itself in tense and impotent mutter- ings. “I'll get you yet, you old cattle- thief. O Lord, O Lord, to have to lie here and take such blasted impu- dence from a black-hearted Apache mongrel!” This when Escolante’s remarks on the status and heredity of the gringo became particularly personal and historic. “Wish I wasn’t a white man and I'd take a pot-shot at you for luck, just as you stand, you cattle-stealing, lying whelp. Cursed nonsense anyway, waiting for proof, and taking a man to the law, when I know darn well you've a steer of mine stowed away ijn the bushes somewhere. Wait till i find your cache, or catch you red- handed; and I'll make you sweat for this.” i So each vocal volley from below, directed against the unseen foe that the haif-breed apprehended to be jurking near, was answered by the bidden enemy with one no less heart- felt because of being, for strategic purposes, necessarily unheard. As the time passed Matson’s limbs grew increasingly cramped and stiff. Decidedly, he reflected, Escolante had the best of the game. He warily stretched himself into a new posi- tion. The hours slipped by; and still the half-breed, warned by his subtle instinct for danger, kept up his gro- tesque parade; and still the watching man was bafiled' of his clue. The shadows lengthened on the river. A few crows, loudly cawing, shook themselves out of the branches of a tree near the cabin and winged themselves for the homeward flight. Dusk was all but fallen; and the watcher painfully stirred his limbs, preparing for-a furtive retreat, when a new element entered the scene be- low. : The girl who stepped to the door of the cabin was slim and lithe as a willow from the stream. Her black hair fell sleek and straight on either side of her face, hanging in thick braids nearly to her knees. She raised one hand to her forehead, shading her eyes for a long look up the river, and the movement had the supple, untaught grace of, a wild thing of the woods. Matson drew his breath in some- thing that came dangerously near to heing a whistle. So this was Esco- jante’s daughter—child of a Mexican mother and a half-breed father—who since her mother’s death had been with the sisters at Santa Barbara. He vaguely recalled, having heard of the girl’s return. This could te none other than she; for what woman, young and beautiful, would fore- gather with that wicked old Esco- lante. He cautiously reached for his bi- mnoculars, with which he had so care- fully scanned the landscape earlier in the day. The girl stood as if posed, straining her level gaze toward the sunset. The glass revealed her face, a warm brown oval, the curves as soft and perfect as a child’s, yet with the fullness and richness of early womanhood, The heavy brows were arched. The thick lashes, iringing like eyes, surely must shadow her cheek when the lids were lowered. The red, curving lips were slightly parted, disclosing white teeth, firme set and regular. The glass did its work well. The girl might have been standing close by; so close that if one reached out a hand one might touch the brown curve of the cheek, or part the silky masses of her hair. The man caught his breath sharply till it hissed be- tween his teeth. The pain in his limbs was forgotten. The girl's face held him like a spell. . Suddenly the upraised hand fell to her side. Escolante’s daughter turned, with a swift grace and en- tered the rude cabin. The sun’s red rim slipped below the horizon. Soon a light shone in the cabin. The man on the bluff lay watching it till far into the night. But his head was sunk on his arms and his gun was unheeded at his side. When a black figure for an instant darkened the doorway his heart leapec. up. Then the old gleam of hate sprang anew in his eyes. It was the half-breed. The man in the chaparral softly raised himself. “I'll settle you yet,” he exulted. And in the dark he shook his clenched fist at the cattle- thief. Then he stealthily withdrew. ‘A month had passed and again it was the dark of the moon. The time had dragged heavily for old Escolante, for with the accursed gringos so closely watching, even a practiced hand must move warily, and it was hard to go empty with fat || cattle feeding at one’s very door. To Dick Matson time had flown on golden wings. Love and hate wax well together in a strong man’s heart; and the red lips of Dolores were sweet. . To the girl the month had passed as a day. It is good to live when the blood is warm; and young love is daring and does not wait for the dark of the moon. On this night Escolante ate his last meal of frijoles and tortillas without the customary sullen scorn. He even ventured a few coarse jests with Do- lores, who was dear to him as the apple of his eye. A man may well jest whose knife is whetted for the killing, and who knows that on the morrow he will feed fat, voiding his hate and filling his stomach at one and the same time. Dolores met his badinage with easy response and well- simulated affection. It is easy to scatter careless affection from the lips when the heart is brimming over with love. Without, men gathered quietly in a certain lonely glade. The night was heavy about them. In the si- lence each man could hear his own heart-beat and his straining breath. The little voices of the night shrilled loudly, and the sound of the cattle cropping the rich grass was like a thousand crunching engines in their ears. The waiting had lengthened to hours before a fat steer coughed and fell under the knife. Then some- thing whirred in the gloom; and thé&n a lantern flared out. Escolante was caught red-handed. His ludicrous dismay when the deft-flung riata tightened round him drew a burst of rough mirth from the sheriff as he slipped on the half-breed’s wrists the symbol of the law and its bond- age. But when Dick Matson stepped from the darkness and reclaimed his riata the cattle-thief broke into fierce vituperations, for this was the most hated, and therefore the most preyed- upon of all the gringos. “Save your wind, old man,” laughed Dick Matson. “You'll need it for the blessing, for to-morrow I marry your daughter.” Escolante grew livid and his jaw dropped.’ Then he opened a fresh volley of imprecations, hurling the lie in the gringo’s teeth. Dick laughed a careless laugh. “Come here, Dolores,” he said. Like a shadow the girl slipped out of the blackness and stood beside him. Dick slid an arm about her and bending kissed her full on the mouth. Then the half-breed went mad with rage, and spat and screamed out curses on the pair until it was horrid to hear him. The sheriff and his men had trouble to hold him. Dolores trembled and shrank against her lover. But Dick Mat- son only laughed his easy laugh and tightened his arm around her. Then he turned and drew her with him into the forest. No more cattle are stolen or killed within the range of the Cross Bar ¥. The cattlemen sleep well of nights and Dick Matson grows rich off his profits. Several plump brown chil- dren play about his door; and of those he is inordinately fond, as is also Dolores, who sees in them ador- able replicas of the man she wor- ships. The two are very kappy, for Dolores is still slim and beautiful; and Matson wants no better life than that of the range and his own fireside. There are moments, how- ever, when the hair stiffens on the back of his neck, and a chill runs along his spine. These are the moments when he reflects on the fact that the utmost that the courts could award to Esco- lante was a life sentence; and that there is always the chance that a prisoner may escape, Or that a too- lenient governor may exercise the right of pardon.—San Francisco Argonaut. Old Union Men. The carpenters’ union, of Winni- peg, Manitoba, boasts of three men who have been continuous members of the organization for more than thirty-six years. The union believes lids now wide-flung, over soft fawn- [this sets a record. A Very Able Woman. By A. B. LEWIS. He stood in front of the laundry with a far-away look in his eyes and appeared to be deciding some moO- mentous question. Finally he entered the place and said to the young man behind the counter: “] see, son, you need laundry hands.” 3 “Yep,” was the reply. “Want a job pushing a flatiron?” “Fergit it! I'm tryin’ to git Sarah a place. She's my wife.” “Had any experience?” “Sarah has had experience in all kinds of work,” he said proudly. “Why, I've seen that woman make pancakes, fry eggs, Cook _beesteak, iron socks, gossip with the neighbors, and lick a couple of the kids, all at the same time. That's a woman for you, my boy! What's the wages?” “She'll get four dollars per if she’s any gocd.” “Any good? Say, you ought to be around some Monday mornin’ when Sarah is cookin’ breakfast, tacklin’ the week’s wash, an’ gittin’ six children ready fer school. Can’t no one beat her, if I do say it myself. But there's one thing I want to warn you about.” “Well?” “Don’t cross her.” “Don’t cross her?” “No. Don’t cross her, or any other red-headed woman weighin’ 200 pounds, fer that matter. ’Bout ten in the mornin’ Sarah will want to sit down an’ smoke her corn-cob fer a spell. That's a dangerous time to cross her—a dangerous time.” “Smoke her corn-cob?” repeated the laundry clerk in astonishment. “] guess not. No smoking allowed here.” “Sarah will do it. She claims that what’s good fer man is good fer wom- an, an’ she knows good tobacco a mile off. What time to-morrow will I send her around?” “We can’t use her here. She's probably all you say she is, but we can’t have smoking here. Why don’t you try that blacksmith shop on the next corner? He needs a helper, I understand, and she could smoke her- self to death there.” “No; I guess not,” he said after thinking over the suggestion. “It’s hardly a woman’s work, but I'm bet- tin’ Sarah would shoe a hoss inside of a week or know the reason why. An’ I'd be sorry fer the hoss what kicked her. Well, so long.” “Say!” called the laundry clerk as the man was leaving, “how did you get that black eye?” “That’s what comes of crossin’ a good woman like Sarah,” he replied. —From Judge. Odd Preserves. Perhaps the oddest of all jams (some of which is imported into this couniry) is made from a red pulp ob- tained from the seed vessels of the common wild rose of Europe. It is brick-red in color and, as might be imagined, is in flavor entirely unlike any other known kind of preserve. In parts of the South what Is known as ‘peach leather” is made from peach juice, which is put into bright pans and dried in the sun. In the dry state it looks a good deal like leather, and is eaten without further preparation, keeping for an indefi- nite time. There is commonly manufactured in Turkey a similar product from grapes, the juice being evaporated to the consistency of molasses. Some flour is mixed with it, and the stuff is spread in thin sheets upon muslin, being then exposed to sunshine for a couple of days. In the same Oriental country wal- nuts are commonly strung upon twine, and after coating them with a mixture of grape-molasses and su- gar are dried. Travelers bound on long journeys frequently carry these strings of nuts, which afford much nourishment in cohcentrated shape. In California a delicious syrup is made from orange juice, which, of course, is quite rich in sugar. And in Virginia watermelon syrup, which is said to be particularly delicious, i= not unknown as a local product.— Philadelphia Press. Workmen Eat Much Sugar. In lumber camps and in the mines of Canada and the colder sections of the United States workmen consume large quantities of sugar in the form of molasses. Tea and coffee is of- ten sweetened with molasses, and in some places is it added to almost every article of food. The same is true to a greater or less extent in the logging districts of the South, where molasses and rice mixed together have become almost a staple diet. Sugar is contained in large propor- tions in many natural foods, such as fruits. Sugar of milk is part of the natural food of the infant. From consulting the tables it will be seen that the carbohydrates (su- gars and starch), are needed and con- sumed in much larger proportions than either of the other two chief classes of nutrients. A person re- quires more than twice as much of carbohydrates as he does of protein and fats combined. Hence the carbo- hydrates might be called the chief class of food nutrients. They make up a large part of vegetable focd and in general are very completely diges- tible. Sugar, it is declared, is com- pletely digested.—What-To-Eat. im ————— Old Age Pension. The Canadian Government has de- cided to enact legislation of Parlia- ment providing pensions for old age. The chief purpose is to encourage thrift and saving among the working classes. The title of Revérend was first ‘used in England in 1657. PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS INCENDIARY FIRES Repeated Fires Confirm Suspicion That Conspiracy Exists In Lancaster County. Lancaster—The burning of the barn on the farm of Bishop Abram B. Herr, at West Willow, through which a loss of $15,000 was entailed, has de veloped what is believed to be a con- spiracy against the Mennonite clergy and other members of that faith in Lancaster county. This fire was the ninth of a series within a short period of time in Pequea and West Lampeter townships and all the structures destroyed were of unusual value for farm’ properties. In the last 18 months the barns of five Mennonite ministers have been burned and this is believed to be ample ground for the suspicion that there is a peculiar enmity existing against the ministers of this faith. The Mennonites of the county are greatly exercised over the numerous fires, many dreading to go to bed at night for fear that some of their property might be burned. The Men- nonites do not seek justice or redress fn the courts, their faith being op- posed to such proceedings. THOUGHT LICENSE ENOUGH Westland Couple Finally Joined In Wedleck by Justice. Washington.—After living in sup- posed lawful wedlock for five years Mr. and Mrs. Antonie Reutta of West- land, this county, have been apprised of their mistake. They secured a li- cense from the clerk of courts on July 28, 1903, after they had been in this country but a few months. This they thought was sufficient to lawfully bind their marriage. A friend informed them a few days ago that they were not married. They lost no time in coming to Washington and having the matrimonial knot firmly tied by Jus- tice E. N. Dunlap. “I paid for the license,” Reutta told the justice, “and thought that money bought anything .you wanted in this country.” LETTERS THREATEN THREE Town of Girardville Stirred Up Over Black Hand Epistles. Shenandoah.—The town of Girard- ville is aroused by the receipt of Black Hand letters by the Rev. Mar- tin Coleman of St. Joseph's Irish kas of St. Vincent's Lithuanian church and Dr. M. J. Monaghan of that place. The priests are threatened with death unless they place a sum of money at a specified place within 24 hours and Dr. Monaghan is warned that he must leave lown within 48 hours. The recipients of the letters seem to be the least affected, though their homes are being guarded by the au- thorities. : DOG QUARANTINE IN FAYETTE Epidemic of Mad Animals Near Un- iontown Causes State to Act. Harrisburg.—The state live stock sanitary board ordered a quarantine for 100 days on all dogs in South Union township, Fayetie county, ad- joining Uniontown, -as the result of mad dogs in that district. The quarantine will be vigorously enforced by agents, especially in view of the suits won in Westmoreland county courts, where a man was con- victed of breaking quarantine on dogs and a state agent acquitted of point- ing firearms in an effort to enforce quarantine. BURNED TO DEATH IN BARN Mrs. Loper Dashes Through Flames But Cannot Escape. Meadville—Mrs. Sylvester Loper, 50 years cld, was burned to deaath in a barn at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. William Hill, near Cochranton. Mrs. Loper and Mrs. Hill were sisters. The former was alone in the barn when the fire started. Screaming, she dash- ed wildly through the flames until she fell unconscious. and farm machinery were destroyed with the barn. POLES PASS RESOLUTIONS Denounce Russian Government and Wiil Hereafter Shun the “Made In Germany” Label. Johnstown.—At a mass meeting of 1,000 Polish Americans here, presid- ed over by Rev. Father Lembinski of St. Casimer’s Catholic church, resolu- tions, which will be sent to President Roosevelt, were adonted denouncing the Russian government for alleged oppression of the pecple. Tt was determined unanimously to use no more goodg stamped “Made in Germany.” Jury Acquits Bursner. Butler. — John DBursner, formeriy general manager of the Naticnal- Gas Company's plant at Zelienople, charg- ed with fraud in representation of as- sets by C. J. D. Strohecker, president of the Peoples National Bank of Ze- lienople, was adjudged ‘mot guilty but pay the costs” by the jury. Not Guilty. Beaver.—The jurymen in the case | of George W. Schaney, charged with murdering Prof. John A. Rand, at Beaver Falls last November returned a verdict of “not guilty by reason of insanity.” State Sells lts Last U. S. Bonds. Harrisburg.—State Treasurer Cash- jer Measey sold the last of the states holdings of $500,000 of United States bonds. In all, $60,000 was realized over and above the face value of the bonds and it will be passed to the credit of the sinking fund. Latrobe.—Burglars at Derry broke the plate glass window of T. Smith’s store and stole a rack of over- coats. Albert Laughlin’s shoe store | shared a similar fate. The windows | of Vincent Vitallis’ barber shop and | several residences were broken. Catholic church, the Rev. A. M. Mitu- | Two horses, several hogs, hay, grain | POWDER EXPLOSION House Wrecked and Four Persons Injured—Child Thrown From Mother's Arms. Punxsutawney.—A keg of Powder exploded here, injuring four persons and wrecking a ‘double house belong- ing to the Punxsutawney Coal Com- pany. An infant thrown 20 feet from its mother’s arms, did not receive a scratch. The injured are Ralph Chil- da, burns and bruises; Mrs. Childa, bruises; Mrs. Mary Gamato, hands and face burned; Louis Gamato, burn ed over body. All but Mrs. Childa were taken to the hospital. All were sitting in front of a kitchen stove, when a keg of powder behind the stove, from some unknown cause, exploded. Mrs. Chil da was just leaving the kitchen with her child in her arms. She was blown under a bed, while the child landed on top of it. The three others struck the walls near the ceiling and escaped being crushed by the collapsing roof only through the walls falling out. it was a double house, but the family on the other side escaped unhurt. That the ruins did not catch fire was due to asbestos lining recently put in all the company houses. : SUES FOR HIS SALARY. Rev. Mr. Bartholomew Believes He Earned It Sitting on Step Without Hearers. Butler-—The Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran congregation of Prospect is made defendant in a suit filed by Rev. Amos K. Bartholomew, now of Greensburg, to collect $802.46 back salary. The suit is the culmination of trou- ble between the congregation and Rev. Mr. Bartholomew, who was lock- ed ‘out of the church from June 2 to August 2, 1907, after acting as pastor for six years. Robbed a Company Store. Carnegie.—Burglars jimmied a back decor in the Federal Supply store of the Pittsburg Coal Company at Hei- delberg, and got $75 worth of loot, including a gold watch, revolvers and razors. At the home of Mrs. Margaret Bender a dog scared them away. Commissioner Henry Schweinberg’s home was visited and the thieves got $1.75. Cows Die Mysteriously. Reynoldsville—Amos Strouse, tax collector of Winslow township, and a wealthy farmer, has lost nearly half his livestock mysteriously. A- menth ago a cow was found with its throat cut. A week ago another cow’s legs were discovered to be paralyzed and it had to be shot. A day later. a horse lay dead in the morning. This was followed by the death of two more Cows. Widely Known Lawyer Dies. Wilkes-Barre.—Edward H. Chase, one of the best known attorneys in Luzerne county, died at nis home here. He was born in Haverhill, Mass., February 25, 1835. During the outbreak of the Civil war he joined the Righth regiment of Pennsylvania, and was one of the first 11 prisoners captured and placed in a Confederate prison in North Carolina. Removes School Directors. New Castle—Judge Porter issued an order removing four of the five Slippery Rock township school diTec- tors. who are charged with having failed to provide proper accommoda- tions for the children of the town- ship. George Dean remains in office. Those removed are Ellis Reno, Slem- mons Cunningham, H. L. Jones and Laughrey Cooper. Providing for Unemployed. Philadelphia.—Several thousand un- employed men of this city will re- | ceive employment on public works, in all probability, in about a‘ month, by the passage of the $10,000,000 loan. | Councils will authorize the floating of the loan at its next meeting, and Mayor Reyburn will immediately advertise for hids. Pottsville—Charles Warzel, a Pole was hanged here for the murder of Mattie Bolinsky, 16 years old, of | Shenandoah, who had refusea to mar- | ry him. Warzel attempted suicide three times. { | | Murderer Is Hanged. | | Sharon.—Announcement was made { that the West foundry, the largest in- got mold manufactory in the country, will be started March 16, and at the ! same time Shenango furnace No. 3 will go into blast. The furnace fur- nishes molten pig metal for the foun- dry. : ‘Washington.—Burglars ransacked the Federal Supply Company stores at Midway. Three dozen pairs of | shces were stolen. At Sturgeon, a store was also entered. Burglars | were driven away from the Federal | supply store at Bulger. Pittsburg.—Three lives were lost when the towboat Stella Moren, with two flats of coal went over dam No. {2 on the Monongahela river at Port Perry, Pa., and sank in twenty feet of water. The dead: John Cox, en- | gineer; Charles Lorain, deck hand; | John Bush, fireman. | Shoots Companion and Escapes. Harrisburg.—During a brawl be- tween foreigners at a quarry camp near this city an Italian laborer shot a companion and escaped on a freight train in sight of the whole camp. The men were known only by num- ber.. | Names Uniontown Midshipman. Washington.—Representative Coop- er has designated Raymond G. Lew- ellyn of Uniontown, as a midshipman at Annapolis naval academy, and John | 8. Madigan of Connellsville as first | alternate. : To Outlaw Card Playing. Playing cards are doomed to disap- pear in the Philippines. Legislation is now in the course of preparation to prohibit the manufacture of these cards in the islands and their impor- tation from other countries. The pun- ishment for the importation of such merchandise is to be fixed at 500 pesos for every packet imported or manu- factured. For the possession of a pack of cards there will be a fine of 100 pesos for every pack found, and in both cases the cards will be confiscated and destroyed—Cebu- (P. 1.) Courier. $100 Reward, $100. The readers’of this paper will bepleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded dis- ease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and thatisCatarrh. Hall’sCatarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con- stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cureis taken inter- nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu- cous surfaces of the eysten, thereby destroy- ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the con- stitution and assisting nature In doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. dress F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75¢c. Sw Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. Lofty Quicksilver Columns. -Some tall mercury columns are used in measuring great pressures. One in a well at Butte Aux Cailles, France, is 1,650 feet high, and re- cords up to 660 atmospheres, one at St. Etienne, in a mine, is 1,330 feet, recording 530 atmospheres, and that on Eiffe] tower is 1,000 feet, record- ing 440 atmospheres. England’s highest, at the Technical college, Manchester, is 175 feet. Something New Under the Sun. ‘A lady in Illinois sent us 12c a year 3g0 for our remarkable collection of vegetable and flower seeds and sold $37.76 worth therefrom, or' made 314 per cent. That's new. Just send this notice with 12¢ and re- ceive the most original seed and ‘plant catalog published an 1 pkg. “Quick Quick” Carrot.........$ .10 1 pkg. Earliest Ripe Cabbage........s .10 1 pkg. Earliest Emerald Cucumber.... .15 1 pkg. La Crosse Market Lettuce..... .15 1 pkg. Early ‘Dinner jon..... seveeny R10 1 pkg. Strawberry Muskmelon... c.ev 1 pe Thirteen Day Radish.......... 3 kernels gloriously beautiful flower seed......... Total ...ivv.2env., « Above is sufficient seed to gro of rarest vegetables and thousands of bril- liant flowers and all is mailed to you POSTPAID FOR 12¢ or if you send 16c, we will add a Jkuys of Berliner Earliest Cauliflowér. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. A. C. L. issstseessucurnrs AID Why He Slaved. Senator Johnston of Alabama, owns a beautiful home surrounded by sev- eral acres in Birmingham, and takes great delight in donning a pair of overalls and a split hickory hat and working in the garden. One-day a fashionably dressed woman, Who had resided in Birmingham only a short time .and had never seen Johnston, called on his wife. No one answered the bell, so she walked out among the fiower beds, where the ex-gover- nor was hoeing some geraniums. He bowed and she asked him how long he had worked for the Johnstons. - replied. “Do they pay you well?” : “About all I get out of it is my clothes and keep.” “Why, come and work for me,” she said. “I'll do that and pay you SO much a month besides.” “I thank you, madam,” he replied, bowing very low, “but I signed up with Mrs. Johnston for life.” “Why, no such contract is binding. That is peonage.” “Some may cali it that, but I have always called it marriage.”—Chicago News. : A Few Got Away. In Kansas City the police even ar- rest on Sunday musicians who give concerts. “But,” says the marshal to the grand jury, ‘“‘several persons Who. participated in Philharmonic Orches- tra’s concert this week got away. We were unable to catch Beethoven, RoS- sini, Mendelssohn, Chopin and S Wagner, whose names appeared upoit the program. I would suggest that warrants be issued for them.’ —New York Evening Post. MUSIC STUDENTE Should Have Steady Nerves. The nervous system of the musi= clan is often very sensitive, and any habit like coffee drinking may so up- set the nerves as to make reguiar and necessary daily practice next to im- possible. “1 practice from seven to eight hours a day and study Harmony two hours,” writes a Mich. music student. | “Last September [ was so nervous [ could only practice a few minutes at a time and mother said 1 would have to drop my music for a year. “This was terribly discouraging, as I couldn’t bear the thought of losing a whole year of study. Becoming caused largely by coffee, and seeing Postum so highly spoken of, I decided I would test it for a while. “Mother followed the directions carefully and I thought I had never tasted such a delicious driak. We drank Postum every morning instead of coffee, and by November 1 felt more like myself than for years, and was ready to resume my music. “I now practice as usual, do m¥ studying and when my day’s work is finished I am not any more nervous than when I began. “I cannot too highly recommend Postum to musicians who practice half a day. My father is a physician and recommends Postum to his pa- tients. Words cannot express my ap- preciation for this most valuable health beverage, and experience has ers.” “There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. 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